What Is the Lion's Gate Portal? The Lion's Gate Portal is a spiritually significant date that occurs each year on August 8th (8/8), recognized in many New Age and metaphysical traditions as a moment of heightened cosmic energy and amplified manifestation power. The name comes from an astronomical alignment: during this time, the star Sirius rises in close alignment with the sun as viewed from Earth, and in ancient Egyptian cosmology, Sirius was closely associated with the con